Life Is Beautiful But Not For Jews

Author : Kobi Niv
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781417503698

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Life is Beautiful, But Not for Jews by Kobi Niv Pdf

Roberto Benigni's romantic comedy Life is Beautiful enjoyed tremendous success everywhere it was shown. In addition to winning almost every possible film award, including three Oscars, lavish praise and film reviews, it grossed over a quarter of a billion dollars—the most profitable Italian movie ever. Very few have questioned the movie—until now. With sharp, uncompromising logic and eye-opening insight, Niv analyzes the film and its script scene-by-scene to show why Life is Beautiful is very far from being the innocent, charming, and heartwarming film it appears to be. The author argues that the film not only lends support to the central arguments of Holocaust deniers, but is actually a quasi-theological, Christian parable which seeks to justify the extermination of Jews in the 20th century as divine punishment for the sin of the crucifixion of Jesus two thousand years ago. Life is Beautiful, But Not for Jews is a riveting book that simply and concisely raises some important and complex ideas about film and psychology in post-Holocaust civilization. It also serves as an elementary course in the appreciation of films and artistic texts in general and in deciphering their deeper meanings, teaching the reader to more clearly grasp the hidden significance of cultural processes. This is the first English translation of the Hebrew text.

Author : Omer Bartov
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253217458

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The "Jew" in Cinema by Omer Bartov Pdf

Explores cinematic representations of the "Jew" from film's early days to the present.

Author : Lawrence Baron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461641353

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Projecting the Holocaust into the Present by Lawrence Baron Pdf

Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films. Yet it is precisely the extremity of 'the Final Solution' and the issues it raised that have fueled the cinematic imagination since the end of World War II. Recognizing that movies reach a greater audience than eyewitness, historical, or literary accounts, Lawrence Baron argues that they mirror changing public perceptions of the Holocaust over time and place. After tracing the evolution of the most commonly employed genres and themes in earlier Holocaust motion pictures, he focuses on how films from the l990s made the Holocaust relevant for contemporary audiences. While genres like biographical films and love stories about doomed Jewish-Gentile couples remained popular, they now cast Jews or non-Jewish victims like homosexuals in lead roles more often than was the case in the past. Baron attributes the recent proliferation of Holocaust comedies and children's movies to the search for more figurative and age-appropriate genres for conveying the significance of the Holocaust to generations born after it happened. He contends that thematic shifts to stories about neo-Nazis, rescuers, survivors, and their children constitute an expression of the continuing impact the Holocaust exerts on the present. The book concludes with a survey of recent films like Nowhere in Africa and The Pianist.

Author : Joshua D. Zimmerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841011

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Jews in Italy Under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman Pdf

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Author : Toby Haggith,Joanna Newman
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1904764517

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Holocaust and the Moving Image by Toby Haggith,Joanna Newman Pdf

Based on an event held at the Imperial War Museum in 2001, this book is a blend of voices and perspectives - archivists, curators, filmmakers, scholars, and Holocaust survivors. Each section examines films and how they have contributed to wider awareness and understanding of the Holocaust since the war.

Author : Roberto Benigni,Vincenzo Cerami
Publisher : Miramax
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015057571963

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Life is Beautiful/La Vita E Bella by Roberto Benigni,Vincenzo Cerami Pdf

This romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many.

Author : Dara Horn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393531572

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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn Pdf

Winner of the 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Life and Prac­tice Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture—and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks—Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. Horn draws upon her travels, her research, and also her own family life—trying to explain Shakespeare’s Shylock to a curious ten-year-old, her anger when swastikas are drawn on desks in her children’s school, the profound perspective offered by traditional religious practice and study—to assert the vitality, complexity, and depth of Jewish life against an antisemitism that, far from being disarmed by the mantra of "Never forget," is on the rise. As Horn explores the (not so) shocking attacks on the American Jewish community in recent years, she reveals the subtler dehumanization built into the public piety that surrounds the Jewish past—making the radical argument that the benign reverence we give to past horrors is itself a profound affront to human dignity.

Author : Marianne Kaurin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545889667

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Almost Autumn by Marianne Kaurin Pdf

An international award-winning novel of World War II, the Holocaust, and first love, set in the snowy streets of Oslo. It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember. But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse doesn't know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis. The work is exhausting and unpredictable, full of late nights and code words and lies to Hermann's parents, to his boss... to Ilse. And as life under German occupation becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made become more important by the hour: To speak up or to look away? To stay or to flee? To act now or wait one more day?In this internationally acclaimed debut, Marianne Kaurin recreates the atmosphere of secrecy and uncertainty in World War II Norway in a moving story of sorrow, chance, and first love.

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0814322328

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Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1988 by Aaron Berman Pdf

An investigation of the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry. The demand for Jewish statehood politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. Berman tries to understand the constraints within which American Jews operated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344033

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Nazism, The Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948 by Aaron Berman Pdf

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim credit for the successful establishment of Israel in 1948, this triumph was not without cost. Their insistence on including a demand for Jewish statehood in any proposal to aid European Jewry politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. The American Zionist response to Nazism also shaped he political turmoil in the Middle East which followed Israel’s creation. Concerned primarily with providing a home for Jewish refugees and fearing British betrayal, Zionists could not understand Arab protests in defense of their own national interests. Instead they responded to the Arab revolt with armed force and sought to insure their own claim to Palestine, Zionists came to link he Arabs with the Nazi and British forces that were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state. In the thinking of American Zionists, the Arabs were steadily transformed from a people with whom an accommodation would have to be made into a mortal enemy to be defeated. Aaron Berman does not apologize for American Jews, but rather tries to understand the constraints within which they operated and what opportunities-if any-they had to respond to Hitler. In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman’s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.

Author : Adina Cimet
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791499146

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Ashkenazi Jews in Mexico by Adina Cimet Pdf

In a century full of social dreams and abhorrent calamities, the survival of a small cultural ethnic group is no small story. Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews arrived in Mexico in the early years of this century. The vast majority of these 40,000 Jews live in Mexico City and have done so for most of the eighty years of this communal experiment. Arriving with few resources, the Ashkenazi created a network of organizations to sustain their cultural survival in a country that had its own complex cultural context. This community chose its own survival path; while successful in confronting some issues, it faced problems of identity and social cohesion that mirror contemporary dilemmas everywhere. The author examines the particular exchanges that took place between minority and majority, and reflects on the challenges for multicultural living shaped by pluralism, democracy, and socio-political tolerance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015073535091

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The Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon J. Bronner,Caspar Battegay
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789624335

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Connected Jews by Simon J. Bronner,Caspar Battegay Pdf

How Jews use media to connect with one another has consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. These essays consider how different media shape actions and project anxieties, conflicts, and emotions, and how Jews and Jewish institutions harness, tolerate, or resist media to create their ethnic and religious social belonging.

Author : William L. McBride
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135631611

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Sartre's Life, Times and Vision du Monde by William L. McBride Pdf

William L. McBride Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, is co-founder of the North American Sartre Society, and the first chairperson of its executive board. His most recent publications include Social and Political Philosophy and Sartre's Political Theory. He was recently named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government, and has served as Chairperson of the Committee on International Cooperation of the American Philosophical Association and as President of the Societe Americaine de Philosophie de Langue Francaise.

Author : Max I. Dimont
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101142257

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Jews, God, and History by Max I. Dimont Pdf

From ancient Palestine through Europe and Asia, to America and modern Israel, Max I. Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the story of virtually every nation on earth.